Sketches on burning current topics (from a landfill to a luxury apartment, mowing death, cowboys, a donor reminder, a bucket-pickers' competition, petrol milking, how to get warm or heat the air, green berets or cleaners make money, a money launderer). Finally, the cup becomes full and the water is drawn.
A young and strong human body is mother nature's piece of art. But should everything it faces become art as well? And if all art is only an imitation, then what does the world of fine arts imitate if some its closets are full of hidden 3D ghosts?
A nature documentary with Hendrik Relve who introduces 18 kinds of trees and bushed that grow in Estonia.
An observational documentary about homelessness and faith. A very big snowstorm named Monica hits Tallinn, Estonia in December 2010 and the film crew visits a soup kitchen opened for people in need. The film tries to observe the activities during Christmas holiday and document how people in need are coping with the ongoing storm.
This short documentary is about a friendship between neighbors who have known each other for entire life. A cold winter, silence, loneliness and thoughts of nostalgia are surrounding their every day life. Their sincerity opens up a world of unusual friendship in the isolated countryside of Estonia.
A documentary about the Lutsis, a vanished group of Estonians, and an exploration of their former villages on the eastern edge of Latvia in search of people who still remember them. The parallel story details Estonian academic and public intrest in their Lutsi countrymen from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Attempts to save "the lost tribe" from assimilation failed, but the Lutsi Estonians nevertheless deserve to be remembered.
The film shows the Victory Day parade dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia and the Defense League and preparations for it.
The Old Man is tired.
The story of an ordinary park bench where the lives of different young people intersect.
A plane is leaving for abroad tomorrow morning. A young man, who has just graduated from high school, spends his last day in his hometown and says goodbye to his old life.
Conversations with Harro
A conversation with Liina about the different people inhabiting her.
A floating bed and a woman carefully - and gently - holding a mouse close to her body. Gazing into the void, she is carried by a train of (sub)consciousness. Chimes and (human and animal) voices punctuate this windy, grassy journey. Like in a possible (sleep) paralysis, the terrain of the real and otherworldly are in permanent tension. She fails to close her eyes.
Original Estonian underground rave generation video art – it's cheap, it's loud, it looks like a home video, it's a manifesto against the male-dominated, post-Soviet art world. Created for the exhibition "private views. space re/cognized in contemporary art from Estonia and Britain" (curated by Mare Tralla and Angela Dimitrakaki in the Estonian Art Museum, 1998) Kiwa was the only male artist on the show and chose, quite pertinently, to focus on the space most associated with male creativity. The mythology of the artist's studio as the protected sanctuary of freedom and self-expression par excellence has risen across diverse techniques of visual signification. Access to the studio means access to a celebrated subjectivity.
A transcendental float or an imminent fall: a woman is in a slow motion descent with a slightly illuminated building rushing on the background. Eyes are shut and the body delicately moves: the wind keeps blowing and the end is always near, yet never quite there.
Mirror on the wall, camera on the ceiling: fast tracked images of waves of an influx of movement inside a women’s bathroom. Entering, waiting, using, leaving: this is a surveillance-style depiction of the transitory life in a non-place filled with possibilities.
An encounter between two men in a club in Riga. A stagnant, distant but carefully observant capturing of a hypnotising pole dance to Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York, that ultimately leads to a personal/closer connection, with general introductory questions about life (and its expectations).
1. Catherine's Ring 2. Body Rider
